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Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.

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Montréal 2003, a city where to be a dépanneur

means to re-invent yourself as a fruiterie . These are not the Amélie Poulin moments you are looking for. The results, so far, have been mixed.
Laurier near St. Denis, Montréal, August 2003

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From the "Oui Are All in the Same Boat" department :

But then Canada would become a donut-shaped country.

Well, given the popularity of Tim Horton's it's only a matter of time.

The problem with Ontario, never mind the nascent sea-faring nation of Alberta ( note: I was born in the former and spent five childhood years in the latter while my mother did her Master's; I have developed, it's true, a somewhat irrational dislike of both ), talking trash and threatening to leave Confederation is the rest of the country would probably show up to help them pack.

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Accessing Web Services In Mozilla [1.4] Using WSDL Proxying

Using the WSDL file, Gecko can offer developers a way to "script" web services as if it were a native object, hiding the SOAP and XML aspect.

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Silver Donald Cameron : "Codswallop. And that's being diplomatic."

Yours is the only country that has ever invaded ours, and it would do so again in a wink if it thought its interests here were seriously threatened.

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"They do care. They just have a bad attitude."

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : barouga

Used when one is bored, either in general or of the topic being discussed. A prompt to move on to something more exciting.
ex. Bert: And then I went into my room. Ernie: Barouga. Person one: oh, okay, next topic.

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PHP-Pal Shopping System

"provides a free and open source shopping cart system for users of the PayPal Online Store solution for small Web-based businesses."

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : disconcert

Disconcert \Dis`con*cert"\, n. Want of concert; disagreement. --Sir W. Temple. web1913
disconcert v 1: cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her" [syn: {confuse}, {flurry}, {consternate}, {put off}] 2: cause to lose one's composure [syn: {upset}, {discompose}, {untune}, {discomfit}] wn

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I'll slideshow you mine.

Started rendering IPTC and EXIF data and mucking with the CSS. I might actually release the code soon - it's hard to tell. I'd like to figure out what I need to do to get XML::Filter::XSLT ( which is already being subclassed ) to read from a filehandle instead of a static file. That way the XSLT stylesheet used to generate individual files from the index could simply ship as the __DATA__ block of the package itself. That may have to wait. I don't even try to remember what remains to do. I just try to leave comments scattered throughout the code, but sometimes that isn't much help either. I once mapped out an issue of a comic book I was working on and simply wrote the bunnies the bunnies for two entire pages. To this day, I have no idea what I was thinking about...

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Me : Image::Shoehorn.pm

I mention this in passing since it was released while I was "away". It is the polished version of the Apache::ImageViewer package mentioned in an earlier post about slideshows. I am slowly working my way through the rest of the project. First, there is a XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2::Base package which might get finished over the weekend. Then there is XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2XHTML which is more interesting than plain vanilla XSLT because it allows users to define event-based handler and callback widgets first introduced in XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2RSS and now part of the Base.pm library. Unlike the original train of thought, which imagined modifying the XHTML DTD to allow for "inline" meta tags on a per-image basis, I am thinking of simply wrapping stuff in &ltdiv class = "meta"> tags and setting their display value to "none" via CSS. The problem with this approach is that it does't fail very gracefully in text browsers of Netscape 4. Maybe I will just write another SAX filter...

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"Everything had to move and retract"

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : protean

Protean \Pro"te*an\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus. `` Protean transformations.'' --Cudworth. 2. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an am[oe]ba is a protean animalcule. web1913
protean adj : taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling protean gray which is never twice the same" wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : cheerleading

One word: Athletes. Girls (and guys!) who lead cheers for popular American sports such as football and basketball. Tumbling, jumping, stunting, yelling--all are all involved.
ex. It's gonna suck if I don't make cheerleading this football season.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : perfunctory

Perfunctory \Per*func"to*ry\, a. [L. perfunctorius, fr. perfunctus dispatched, p. p. of perfungi to discharge, dispatch; per (see {Per}) + fungi to perform. See {Function}.] 1. Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions. --Macaulay. 2. Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless. ``Perfunctory in his devotions.'' --Sharp. web1913
perfunctory adj 1: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: {casual}, {cursory}, {passing(a)}] 2: as a formality only; "a one-candidate pro forma election" [syn: {pro forma}] wn

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This, presumably, is how one learns to become a Libertarian

or atleast a Republican...

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : slazzy

Poorly attempting to dress nicely. Possible origin: Combination of snazzy (nicely dressed) and sleazy (poorly dressed).
ex. Christine looked very slazzy when she entered the fancy restaurant.

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Paul Kennedy's Ocean Journal

What is it with the Japanese and waves?

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mudguts

Most likely the younger sister of a skank, a mudguts typically has at least two inches of stomach showing. To be a true mudguts the stomach must also fall two inches beyond the top of her short skirt. A beer gut for young women. Muddy for short.
ex. For a sixteen year old she must drink a lot of beer. She isn't pregnant, so she must be a mudguts.

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Radio Crankypants #1: Let it never be said that I have a problem with aggregating data.

But I've been watching the growth of Radio Userland weblogs with their handy-dandy blog yer newsfeeds feature and I don't like what I'm seeing. It seems sort of unfair to "beat up" on Userland on what looks to be their big shipping day but it is important to make the distinction that this is not an issue with the technology, per se, but with the way people are using it. (Yeah yeah, don't say it. The medium is the message. I know; I'm from Canada.) Not to make too fine a point of it: too many of the Radio weblogs I see are just plain boring. Boring not because the people running them are boring but because the constant recycling of rss feed data just reeks of laziness and group-think. It's the same thing, website after website without so much as a peep of personal reaction. The only thing that seems to change is the position of the post on a given webpage. Again, it is important to recognize that this is not a new thing . However, the technology at hand -- when you stop and step away from the whiz-banginess of it all -- seems poised to only exacerbate the problem. Which is too bad.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is lubricious

| source : wn | lubricious adj 1: having a smooth or slippery quality; "the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious" 2: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: {lustful}, {prurient}, {salacious}]

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Some thoughts on the "imagination proposition" :

Now, I think I understand the sentiment in the original and the subsequent commentary but I would just like to point out that this is hardly a new idea. It is a dressing up of several old ones, including : navel-gazing, selfish-ness, short-sightedness and lifestyle porn. How do you think advertising works? Don't beleive the hype .

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Me : xml-rss.js 0.2

This library supersedes rss-parser.js, mentioned earlier . I've added support for versions 0.9 and 1.0 as well as preliminary support for the Dublin Core and Syndication RSS 1.0 modules. There are also stub hooks for generating an RSS document, but I wouldn't bother trying to use them just yet.

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Can someone please tell me what "persistent partial attention" is?

I'm going to guess that, if nothing else, it isn't "very complete". Looks like someone is selling sugar-water, again...

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Brian Wilson : Mail Management With Mime::Tools

"Recently I had a thought: Why not save any attachments and make them immediately available on the Web server? Then by replacing the attachment with the appropriate URL in the outbound email message, each message recipient could decide whether or not to download the files." see also : Using Perl to send email (and attachments) with Outlook I too am not sure why anyone would actually want to do this, but you never know. I include the link only so that people may file it in their "Oh yeah, someone's already figured this out" cabinets.

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Kirrily Robert : Gluttony

"is a web-based recipe and ingredient database system built on Perl and MySQL." It's not really like the world needs yet another recipe data storage widget, but nothing I've seen yet has satisfied all of my particularities. So, as a first step towards rolling my own, I have created a DTD for the Eatdrinkfeelgood markup language . Comments and suggestions are welcome .

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Pete Mellor : The Heavens at War - NMD assessed

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Bill Nichols : Digital Libraries in the Large

"Federation solves two problems — providing a common access method to different databases of similar data, and providing transparent access to very large distributed databases that would not be practical to concentrate in one location. Federation creates a multilayer interface between the Internet and each DB, with common high-level services and custom low-level access to each different DB. Thus all of the code can be shared except the detailed access code for each DB."

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Sean M. Burke : The RTF Cookbook

"RTF is a nearly ubiquitous text formatting language devised by Microsoft. Microsoft's Rich Text Format Specification is widely available, but it's usable mainly just as a reference for the language's entire command set. This short document, however, is meant as a quick reference and overview. It is meant for people interested in writing programs that generate a minimal subset of RTF."

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"The CPAN is Perl's killer-app."

So said Nat Torkington during the Lightning Talks at YAPC; I wasn't in the room. It's the one thing that all the other languages want and, for the life of me, can't seem to figure out. Take for example, PEAR which is an acronym for something that translates as the CPAN for PHP. I wouldn't count myself as a PHP god but I am no stranger to the language either. I have yet to be able to suss out what the hell PEAR is and, more importantly, how to use it. Sure, it usually helps to be root if you want to use the CPAN for installs but, at the very least, it's nothing more than a giant, searchable list, organized by topic, with pointers to README files and tarballs. If I want to use the File::Find::maptree PHP function, I can only guess that I have to recompile the whole of mod_php itself. Well, duh... There are times in life -- I know you're not going to want to hear this -- when you don't have root and the powers that be aren't interested in hearing what you have to say. I am willing to admit that I'm missing something here, but is PEAR a package unto itself or just a framework for distributing thrid-party functionality? I thought the whole point was to set up a system that would build on itself and make small steps towards preventing people from reinventing the wheel (in theory atleast.) What's the point in creating a generalized archive if I have install everything in it? Why can't I just go to the PEAR site and grab that which I need? Where the hell are the fucking files?! Anyway, the best line from YAPC : All your Damian are belong to us.

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From the Simple Pleasures department : cop shades

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Dave Pawson : XSLT Questions and Answers

Even contains a Things XSLT Can't Do section which probably ought to be manditory for any, and every, Q&A document.

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Leigh Dodds : Validating XML using XSLT

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The Pseudodictionary, Dict-ified

I was so smitten with the Pseudodictionary , the first time I saw it, that I fired off an email to the creators asking if there was a master data-file I could use to build a database to be read by a Dict server . I don't run a public server so I've posted the database and index files as a tarball. I will leave setting up and running a dictd server as an exercise to the reader. Because the pseudodictionary contains both words and phrases, it's not a perfect fit for dict. Results for phrases are sometimes returned as entries for each word or simply aren't discovered. I'm not very fluent in the ways of the dict server so if I'm missing something here, please let me know . On the other hand, if the Jargon File suffers from the same problem, for phrases like "hack value", I figure I can live with it too. For my next trick, I'm going to sleep. Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking ...

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Sightings : Happy happy. Joy joy.

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Politics of Culture : E-Books: On Paper or in the Hand?

(real evil g2)

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Jan Mlodozeniec, 1929 - 2000

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Michael Floyd : Roll Your Own XML Editor

"I created a Web-based editor that generates and saves fully validated XML documents based on text supplied by authors. While the editor doesn't completely eliminate the need for markup, it greatly simplifies the process." see also : I <heart /> rolling my own

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Sightings : On being a chicken

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Jerrad Pierce : English::Reference.pm

"Provides the ability to use: ARRAY $arrayref en lieu of @$arrayref" I can't decide if this is laziness or hubris...

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Jesse Erlbaum : CGI::Application

"is an inversion of the "Embedded" philosophy (ASP, JSP, EmbPerl, Mason, etc.) in which there are "pages" for each state of the application, and the page drives functionality. In CGI::Application, form follows function -- the Application Module drives pages, and the code for a single application is in one place; not spread out over multiple "pages". If you feel that Embedded architectures are confusing, unorganized, difficult to design and difficult to manage, CGI::Application is the methodology for you!"

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Dale Dougherty : Copy Right and Wrong

The architecture of the Napster service is such that users download music files from each other's computers without ever storing the files on the Napster server. Would you say that Napster allows users to exchange copies for their own private use? Or would you say that Napster is really acting as a publisher, not only distributing the work but giving it away for free while making money in other ways such as advertising? Or is Napster much the same as a commercial FM radio station?

Meanwhile, if you can manage to read through the redesign, Lincoln Stein has written an article on all things Napster in the May 2000 dead-tree edition of Web Techniques . see also : (you lose) natureboy (quicktime)

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Meanwhile, Salon considers throbbing email

I have yet to try zaplets for two reasons. The first is that I still haven't seen a coherent description of the product that doesn't involve atleast two paragraphs of buzzword bingo. If you're going to try and convince me that you're in the keep-it-simple business, that's a bad sign. The second reason is that this never-ending rush to turn email (and everything else) into television just makes me want to scream "Converge this, motherfucker!"

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Hacker News : Have Script, Will Destroy (Lessons in DoS)

see also the SANS Institute on Egress Filtering .

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Le Glossaire Québécois

"Tu peux câlisser ton P'tit Larousse dans la rivière!" via <a href = "http://altern.org/groov3/yahoo/med.html">Youhou!</a>

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Morning Becomes Eclectic

Zap Mama, live in studio real audio.

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Globe and Mail : Chrétien considering gamble on referendum law

Let me tell you a story: During the last referendum campaign, I was studying in Toronto . At the start of the debate, I had no questions about voting No. Because I was living out of province, I had to vote 2 weeks early and I wish that I hadn't because by the day of the vote I wasn't so sure of my decision. Okay, it's unlikely that I would ever vote for a pig as insolent and arrogant as Jacques Parizeau, but after two months of listening the The Rest of Canada's take on the sovereignty debate I had real questions about who I wanted to live with. Two months of moaning about "my" country being destroyed and, mean-spirited discussion of sticking it to Quebec and finally the brain-dead, self congratulatory love-in without a word towards any of the legitimate greivances led to the sovereignty movement. It was like trying to talk to a child in the middle of a temper tantrum. I would still have voted no --I like to think Canada mostly works, most of the time, for most of the people-- but I went home on the night of the vote and, like many others, I will stay in Montreal if Quebec chooses to secede.

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L. Everett : Church of the All-Night Donut

"He hands me a booklet with a picture of a happy, white family, hugging and kissing each other on the cover. Oh Christ. Satan's learned Quark Xpress. I pray for Y2K to hit."

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Notes on surfmenu

I did some work with peterme adding some features to surfmenu to work more gracefully with bookmarklets he wrote for the code. The changes have not yet been added to any of the documented files on the aaronland site . [We] have people visiting, so I haven't had much time for anything after work. I hope to have everything updated sometime on Friday afternoon.

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The government of Canada is looking for worms

I had no idea that the "largest earthworm ever found in the world measured in at 22 feet from its nose to the tip of its tail" or that earthworms "are 82 % protein." I remember reading How To Eat Fried Worms when I was kid, which of course led me to a recipe for Gummy Worm Marshmallow Treats . mmmmmm...gummy worms.

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CBC : Cockroaches don't like catnip

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My Messy Bedroom

Josey Vogels quotes, at length, from "The Penis Book".

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Scott McNealy

"The car is a vast, untapped market for advertisers...I often refer to the automobile as nothing more than a Java browser with tires." I think I'm going to have to break something today.

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Kenneth Steele : The Mystery of the Mozart Effect

Debunking the myth. See also : As It Happens interview with Dr. Steele . real audio (starts 12:02)

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The Cult of the Palm Pilot

"It was also something of a postmodern moment. I had done this, at least in part, so that I could write about sitting in Denny's while reading Ehrenreich's first-person account of attempting to make ends meet as a waitress at a restaurant very much like Denny's -- on a device no Denny's waitress, presumably, could afford." All I can say is that I'm glad my mother taught me not to be an impulse-shopper...via <a href = "http://www.slashdot.org">slashdot</a>.

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Brian Myles : Le jazz façon techno

"À ceux qui soulignent que les musiques électroniques ne sauraient être représentées dans un Festival de jazz, il répond du tac au tac: «Sortez de l'âge des ténèbres. Le futur est à nos portes. L'an 2000, c'est dans... cinq mois. Nous devons nous ouvrir les yeux, l'esprit. Le scratch, c'est de l'improvisation.» "

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